{"id":"CVE-2022-39355","aliases":["EUVD-2022-41822","GHSA-fvj9-f67v-qpr4"],"status":"published","title":"Discourse Patreon vulnerable to improper validation of email during Patreon authentication","description":"Discourse Patreon enables syncronization between Discourse Groups and Patreon rewards. On sites with Patreon login enabled, an improper authentication vulnerability could be used to take control of a victim's forum account. This vulnerability is patched in commit number 846d012151514b35ce42a1636c7d70f6dcee879e of the discourse-patreon plugin. Out of an abundance of caution, any Discourse accounts which have logged in with an unverified-email Patreon account will be logged out and asked to verify their email address on their next login. As a workaround, disable the patreon integration and log out all users with associated Patreon accounts.","severity":{"version":"3.1","score":9.1,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N","level":"critical","assessor":"cna","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-10","score":0.00978,"percentile":0.62458,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":false},"cwes":["CWE-287"],"published":"2022-10-26T00:00:00Z","modified":"2026-10-28T02:30:22Z","products":[{"vendor":"discourse","product":"discourse-patreon"},{"vendor":"discourse","product":"patreon"}],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/discourse/discourse-patreon/security/advisories/GHSA-fvj9-f67v-qpr4","tags":["x_transferred","Third Party Advisory","advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/discourse/discourse-patreon/commit/846d012151514b35ce42a1636c7d70f6dcee879e","tags":["x_transferred","Patch","Third Party Advisory","fix"]},{"url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/39xxx/CVE-2022-39355.json","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-39355","tags":["advisory"]}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2022-39355","title":"Discourse Patreon vulnerable to improper validation of email during Patreon authentication","description":"Discourse Patreon enables syncronization between Discourse Groups and Patreon rewards. On sites with Patreon login enabled, an improper authentication vulnerability could be used to take control of a victim's forum account. This vulnerability is patched in commit number 846d012151514b35ce42a1636c7d70f6dcee879e of the discourse-patreon plugin. Out of an abundance of caution, any Discourse accounts which have logged in with an unverified-email Patreon account will be logged out and asked to verify their email address on their next login. As a workaround, disable the patreon integration and log out all users with associated Patreon accounts.","status":"published","published":"2022-10-26T00:00:00Z","modified":"2025-04-23T16:43:09.263Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":9.1,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N","level":"critical","assessor":"cna"}],"cwes":["CWE-287"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:34:39.233406Z"}],"euvd":[{"id":"EUVD-2022-41822","description":"Discourse Patreon enables syncronization between Discourse Groups and Patreon rewards. On sites with Patreon login enabled, an improper authentication vulnerability could be used to take control of a victim's forum account. This vulnerability is patched in commit number 846d012151514b35ce42a1636c7d70f6dcee879e of the discourse-patreon plugin. Out of an abundance of caution, any Discourse accounts which have logged in with an unverified-email Patreon account will be logged out and asked to verify their email address on their next login. As a workaround, disable the patreon integration and log out all users with associated Patreon accounts.","status":"published","published":"2022-10-26T00:00:00Z","modified":"2025-04-23T16:43:09Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":9.1,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N","level":"critical"}],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T20:52:11.891054Z"}],"nvd":[{"id":"CVE-2022-39355","description":"Discourse Patreon enables syncronization between Discourse Groups and Patreon rewards. On sites with Patreon login enabled, an improper authentication vulnerability could be used to take control of a victim's forum account. This vulnerability is patched in commit number 846d012151514b35ce42a1636c7d70f6dcee879e of the discourse-patreon plugin. Out of an abundance of caution, any Discourse accounts which have logged in with an unverified-email Patreon account will be logged out and asked to verify their email address on their next login. As a workaround, disable the patreon integration and log out all users with associated Patreon accounts.","status":"published","published":"2022-10-26T20:15:10.66Z","modified":"2026-06-17T04:58:12.28Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":9.1,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N","level":"critical","assessor":"secondary"},{"version":"3.1","score":9.8,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"critical","assessor":"primary"}],"cwes":["CWE-287"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:07:31.127985Z"}],"osv":[{"id":"CVE-2022-39355","title":"Discourse Patreon vulnerable to improper validation of email during Patreon authentication","description":"Discourse Patreon enables syncronization between Discourse Groups and Patreon rewards. On sites with Patreon login enabled, an improper authentication vulnerability could be used to take control of a victim's forum account. This vulnerability is patched in commit number 846d012151514b35ce42a1636c7d70f6dcee879e of the discourse-patreon plugin. Out of an abundance of caution, any Discourse accounts which have logged in with an unverified-email Patreon account will be logged out and asked to verify their email address on their next login. As a workaround, disable the patreon integration and log out all users with associated Patreon accounts.","status":"published","published":"2022-10-26T00:00:00Z","modified":"2026-10-28T02:30:22.626549308Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":9.1,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N","level":"critical"}],"cwes":["CWE-287"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:44:26.860704Z"}]}}